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...against his will to fight the Japanese, whom he has been getting ready to fight anyhow, with Communist assistance, that will put a much better face on things. We can also tell the West that if we win this war with Moscow's aid we will turn around afterward and ditch Moscow, just as we did before...
...taking this kind of risk that an officer under fire is afterward either shot or plastered with medals. As Mr. Baldwin had just laid before the House the irrevocable abdication of Edward VIII, "signed by his own hand," the Prime Minister was not exactly under fire. The House was offered a choice of voting either for or against His Majesty's "irrevocable decision." It was ratified by a vote of 403-to-5 in the Commons and passed without dissent in the Lords. Dominion Parliaments hastened to concur by rubber-stamp landslides, all excepting the Irish Free State...
Your statement that Mr. Huxman was promised that the campaign would cost him nothing and that "afterward he would be given a job in Washington with a better salary than . . . $5,000 a year," is absolutely without foundation...
...delegates in their exuberance had filed 43,000 amendments to J. Stalin's Constitution-not that they expected these to be adopted or even debated but just for the fun of boasting afterward back home that they had filed an average of 17 amendment's each. There was no doubt that the Congress would vote whatever the Dictator wanted in its entirety this week and J. Stalin, ignoring the 43,000 amendments, told the Congress crisply: "In ten days we shall have a new Constitution...
...madness of Americans. The fresh snow in the backyard of the famous Spiridonovskaya Palace was littered with new bathtubs and other plumbing fixtures. One of the handsomest houses in the city, it was built only a few years before the revolution by Spasso, a fur tycoon (soon afterward murdered by his son), and its plumbing, barely 25 years old, is among the most modern in Moscow. But those crazy Americans who rented it as a home for their Ambassador have to have still newer plumbing...